Session 1.0

14:00 – 15:20

Plenary: High-level status overview

1.       Introduction: Opening words – Diego Fernandez Prieto (ESA) (10 mins)

2.       DestinE and The DestinE Platform – Ines Sanz Morere (ESA) (15 mins)

3.       The Digital Twin Engine – Thomas Geenen (ECMWF) (15 mins)

4.       The Data Lake – Michael Schick (EUMETSAT) (15 mins)

5.       The ESA Digital Twin Earth Programme – Franka Kunz (ESA) (15 mins)

6.       The ESA Digital Twin Earth Components Overview – Martin Wearing (ESA) (10 mins)

Session 1.1

15:45 – 17:30

Chair: Martin Wearing (ESA)

ESA DTCs Lead Development Actions:

7 x (12 min Presentation + 3 min Q&A)

1.       Forest Digital Twin Component – Matti Mõttus (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)

2.       A first view of an EO-driven digital twin for ice sheets – Sebastian Simonsen (Technical University of Denmark)

3.       Digital Twin Earth: Coastal Processes and Extremes – Daniel Morton (Argans)

4.       Earth Observation based Digital Twin for Resilient Agriculture under Multiple Stressors: EOAgriTwin – Gohar Ghazaryan (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research)

5.       Advancing Agricultural Insights through the SaveCrops4EU Digital Twin Component, an Introduction – Sander Marcel Maria Rouwette (Thales Alenia Space Luxembourg – LU)

6.       Hydr’Avatar, toward a digital twin of hydrological systems using multi-complexity modelling and advanced EO datasets – Adrien Paris (Hydro Matters)

7.       Digital Twin Earth Hydrology Next: end-to-end reconstruction of the terrestrial water cycle at high resolution – Luca Brocca (Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, National Research Council, Italy)

Session 2.1

9:30 – 11:00

Chair: Martin Wearing (ESA)

ESA DTCs Early Development Actions:

6 x (12 min Presentation + 3 min Q&A)

1.       Introduction to the Early Digital Twin Component EO4ER ("Earth Observation for Energy Risks") – Ingo Schoolmann (Ohb Digital Services Gmbh)

2.       A digital twin of Svalbard’s cryosphere (SvalbardDT) – William Harcourt (University Of Aberdeen)

3.       A Digital Twin Component for Glaciers – Fabien Maussion (University of Bristol)

4.       AIR4health: Leveraging Earth Observation for Compound Climate and Air Quality Extremes Early Warning – Ana Oliveira (CoLAB +Atlantic)

5.       Geohazard DTC: the GET-IT project – Salvatore Stramondo (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica E Vulcanologia)

6.       A DTC Urban: Smart Urban Resilience Enhancement (SURE) – Manuela Ferri (e-GEOS) 

Session 2.2

11:30 – 13:00

Chair: Franka Kunz (ESA)

DT initiatives and projects

Presentations: 6 x (12 min presentation + 3 min Q&A) 

1.       A digital twin for geophysical extremes: interim results from the DT-GEO project – Arnau Folch (Geociencias Barcelona, (GEO3BCN-CSIC), Spain)

2.       Biodiversity Digital Twins for Advanced Modelling, Simulation and Prediction Capabilities – Gabriela Zuquim (Csc - It Center For Science)

3.       Environmental digital twins in the interTwin project – Andrea Manzi (Egi Foundation)

4.       EDITO: A Collaborative Platform for Sustainable Ocean Management and Innovation – Marina Tonani (Mercator-Ocean International)

5.       Deploying FAIR and AI-Ready Agrobiodiversity Data in the Destination Earth Data Lake – Claus Weiland (Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution For Biodiversity And Earth System Research)

6.       The HydroLand Application within the Destination Earth Initiative – Aparna Chandrasekar (Helmholtz Center For Environmental Research)

Session 2.2

13:00 – 13:30

Round Table discussion (30 mins)

Session 2.4 

14:30 - 16:00

Chair: Edward Malina

(ESA)

DT initiatives, science and technology (part 1)

Presentations: 6 x (12 min presentation + 3 min Q&A) 

1.       A federated digital twin architecture that bridges earth observation and in-situ communities to combine datasets in near real-time – Thomas Mansfield (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)

2.       Empowering thematic and high resolution digital twins with the Digital Twin Factory – Pierre-Marie Brunet (CNES)

3.       A Modular Framework for Digital Twin Earth System Model Development with WebAssembly – Charles Smeltzer (George Washington University)

4.       Super-Resolution Modeling for Enhanced Surface Climate Representation in Polar Digital Twins – Stef Lhermitte (KU Leuven)

5.       Correction of NWP ocean forcing biases with machine learning and scatterometer data – Evgeniia Makarova (Barcelona Expert Centre (BEC), Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC))

6.       Iliad digital twins of the ocean: Thematic and local twins in Europe, Africa and The Middle-East – Bente Lilja Bye (BLB)

Session 2.5

16:15 – 17:30

Chair: Claudia Vitolo

(ESA)

DT initiatives, science and technology (part 2)

Presentations: 5 x (12 min presentation + 3 min Q&A) 

1.       AI Foundation Model for Earth Observation PhilEO: Applications and Evaluation Framework – Nikolaos Dionelis (European Space Agency (ESA))

2.       IDEATION: A Roadmap for a Digital Twin for Inland Waters – Eloisa Vargiu (Cetaqua)

3.       SCOast-DT: Creation and Deployment of Space-based Digital Twins of Coastal Zones – Vincent Lonjou (CNES)

4.       Towards an Open Soil-Plant Digital Twin Based on STEMMUS-SCOPE model Following Open Science – Yijian Zeng (ITC Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Universiteit Twente)

5.       Towards Multi-Scale Agent-Based Models Informed by Earth Observations for Digital Twins – David Wagg  (University of Sheffield)

Insights to the DestinE Platform

1)       Overview of the DestinE Platforms features and services

a)       Existing services

b)       Hands-on demonstration for users (registration, upgraded access, cost models, on-boarding procedure)

2)       DTE Framework demonstration

3)       DTE Collaborative environment

4)       Practical demonstration of use case on-boarding – CityNexus

Q&A